Writing Quotes · Page 437

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

— Alvaro Morata

“...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...”

— John Geddes

In real life...you can't write 2 sentences on antyhing...but on Twitter you're a philosopher...

— Jerett Parker

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

— Anonymous

I can't fudge what I write. But I can certainly fudge what I say.

— Seymour Hersh

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

— T. J. Miller

The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or…

— Anonymous

If you have some natural talent and really want to write, you should read the books of someone who's very successful in…

— Clive Cussler

James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his…

— Edward Hirsch

“I'm going to be a person who writes stories. I never told mom and dad how much I loved them. I wanna…

— Aoboshi Kimama

As I have begun to write my memoirs, I have begun with my childhood; memories which were hidden, suddenly appear before you,…

— Deepti Naval

They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting…

— Anonymous

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

— Tim Cahill

I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it.…

— Callie Khouri

“The novelist’s happy discovery was to think of substituting for those opaque sections, impenetrable by the human spirit, their equivalent in immaterial…

— Marcel Proust

In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder…

— Ray Bradbury

I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing…

— John Sayles

I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it…

— Bill Hader

When I was writing my column, I would almost always be recognized when I was in a restaurant, even if I was…

— Toby Young

Maybe the the luxury of not having acting be my only profession is that I can be more selective about what I…

— Ricky Jay

I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving…

— Shirley Manson

As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also…

— George R. R. Martin

I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom.

— Amit Bhatia

Writers ... I think ... live on that fine line between insanity and genius.

— Nikki Giovanni

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

— Charles Dickens

I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.

— Leonard Sweet

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

— Tama Janowitz

It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.

— Eric Bachmann

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it.

— Moliere

In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

— Alex Haley

To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

— Eugene Delacroix

Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen.

— Peter Drucker

“What I write about is not war but the courage of man.”

— Cornelius Ryan

“I'll go on writing till the end of my days. I have been writing too long to stop.”

— Mary O'Hara

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

— William Fleming

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.

— Richard Wilbur

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

— Gertrude Stein

I just wanted to keep writing, playing and going out touring.

— Jack Savoretti